Misc

Twitter

Blake Caraway — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:59:26 GMT

I wanted to keep up with the altnet conference in Seattle this weekend so I took the time to create my twitter account - http://twitter.com/bcaraway -as I've been tracking the altdotnet tweets. This is a great way to communicate. Very Web 2.0.

Company Morale Improves As a Result of Break-In

Blake Caraway — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:38:14 GMT

There was a break-in at our company the other night. We had some nice products on visible display through the front door in our office's small reception area that evidently made for an easy target of a smash and grab operation. The entire caper was recorded on our internal security video system. The perpetrators (one inside taking things to the door, the other just outside receiving) broke the glass out of the front door and proceeded to carried out the items on display.

At one point during the ~1 minute heist, the thief looked into the conference room just off the reception area near the front door and noticed an LCD projector on the table. He quickly ran into the conference room, grabbed the projector, and dragged it from the building by its cabling.

The buzz in the office the next morning was mainly around the fact that our really crappy LCD projector was now gone and that we finally had the necessary justification to purchase a new projector actually good at, you know, projecting video images and displaying visual information.

Thanks, degenerate criminals!

New Neal Stephenson Fan

Blake Caraway — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 03:05:00 GMT

I just finished reading my first Neal Stephenson book - Cryptonomicon. That is one awesome novel! I'm blown away by the complexity of Stephenson's writing. I really connected with the great characters in the story. The connection was so great that I picked up a copy of Quicksilver, the follow-up to Cryptonomicon, at the local B&N this afternoon; and I'm trying to convince my wife to go along with the idea of changing my one week old son's name from Grant Thomas to Bobby Shaftoe ;-)